Product Liability: Fundamental Questions in a Comparative Perspective

Abstract

The editors are proud to have supervised the present volume, which to their knowledge is the first book-length analysis of comparative product liability laws around the globe written by scholars representative of the whole world, an achievement only possible due to the efforts of the World Tort Law Society (WTLS). In 2012, at the suggestion of Prof YANG Lixin, Renmin University, Beijing, the latter was jointly founded by the Research Center for Civil and Commercial Jurisprudence of the Renmin University, Beijing, China, and the Institute for European Tort Law (ETL) and European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL), both Vienna, Austria. The aim of the Society is to create a forum for discussion of current developments in tort law on a global scale. The first President of the Society is Prof Helmut KOZIOL (Vienna, Austria). The executive committee consists of Prof YANG Lixin, Prof Ken OLIPHANT (Bristol, UK) and Prof Michael D GREEN (Wake Forest, USA), supported by Prof WANG Zhu (Chengdu, China). The other members of the Society - numbering up to a maximum of 30 - are tort law researchers from around the world.